FBI executes search warrant at Georgia election office over 2020 US vote

FBI searches Fulton County predetermination bureau successful Georgia implicit 2020 predetermination concerns linked to Trump-Biden contest.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is executing a hunt warrant astatine a Fulton County predetermination bureau successful Georgia related to the 2020 United States election, an bureau spokesperson said.

An FBI spokesperson said agents were “executing a court-authorised instrumentality enforcement action” astatine the county’s main predetermination bureau successful Union City, conscionable southbound of Atlanta. The spokesperson declined to supply immoderate further information, citing an ongoing matter.

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FBI agents were spotted entering the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center, said Fox News, which archetypal reported the hunt of a caller installation that authorities officials opened successful 2023.

The probe concerns the 2020 election, successful which Republican Donald Trump, the existent US president, mislaid to the erstwhile US president, Democrat Joe Biden, the authoritative said.

The hunt comes arsenic the FBI, nether the enactment of Director Kash Patel, has moved rapidly to prosecute the governmental grievances of Trump, including by moving with the Justice Department to analyse aggregate perceived adversaries of the commander-in-chief.

The Justice Department had nary contiguous comment.

Find the votes

Trump has agelong insisted that the 2020 predetermination was stolen adjacent though judges crossed the state and his ain lawyer wide said they recovered nary grounds of wide fraud that tipped the contention successful Biden’s favour.

Representatives for Fulton County’s predetermination bureau referred queries to the county’s outer affairs office, which did not instantly instrumentality a telephone seeking comment.

The Democratic-leaning county, location to Atlanta, backed Biden by a wide borderline successful the 2020 election, helping him triumph the authorities and the presidency.

Trump unsuccessfully sought to overturn the result, pressuring the state’s apical predetermination authoritative to “find” him capable votes to assertion victory.

Earlier this month, Trump asked a authorities tribunal for $6.2m successful ineligible fees, saying helium spent it warring transgression charges of predetermination interference filed by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.

In August 2023, Willis obtained an indictment against Trump and 18 others, accusing them of participating successful a wide-ranging strategy to illegally effort to overturn the results of the 2020 statesmanlike election.

That lawsuit was dismissed successful November aft courts barred Willis and her bureau from pursuing it due to the fact that of an “appearance of impropriety” stemming from a romanticist narration she had with a authoritative she had appointed to pb the case.